News for Sunday, September 2, 2012

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Germany's finance minister hit hopes that Europe's stressed banks could soon tap the region's rescue funds directly when he said Monday that a new Europe-wide banking supervisor is unlikely to be up and running in the new year.

A plan by the New Zealand government to raise billions of dollars by selling shares in state-owned energy companies has been delayed so officials can spend more time consulting with indigenous Maori, who had threatened legal action to try and halt the sales.

Tying the record for latest finish at the U.S. Open, Philipp Kohlschreiber of Germany eliminated marathon man John Isner of the United States 6-4, 3-6, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 at 2:26 a.m. Monday, reaching the fourth round.

With his mother in the hospital and his father out of state, a 6-year-old boy and his siblings were under the care of a teenager when someone apparently entered their New Jersey residence at night and killed him while he slept, authorities say.

A couple wanted for shooting a Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy before embarking on a series of carjackings on Sunday was identified as a man who recently escaped from jail with the help of his wife.

The Rev. Sun Myung Moon, best known for conducting mass weddings involving thousands of couples, was a self-proclaimed messiah, but he was at least as good at attracting dollars as he was at drawing converts.

A grandson of the creator of the Red Bull energy drink is suspected of driving the charcoal Ferrari that struck and killed a policeman and then dragged the officer's body down a Bangkok street in an early-morning, hit-and-run accident, police said Monday.

China's manufacturing decelerated further in August while construction and services grew at a slow rate, according to two surveys Monday, adding to conflicting signals about whether the country's slowdown is bottoming out.

In the Pakistani tribal regions that harbor al-Qaida and a cauldron of other jihadist groups, militants from Central Asia, China, Turkey and even Germany are growing in number, eclipsing Arabs and possibly raising new challenges not just for the U.S. but for Europe, Russia and China, say intelligence officials, analysts and residents of the area.

LAKE ELSINORE ---- Burch Smith and four Lake Elsinore relievers combined on an eight-hitter Sunday night as the Storm kept their playoff hopes alive with a 1-0 victory over the Inland Empire 66ers before 3,723 at The Diamond.

A co-founder of popular file sharing website The Pirate Bay was arrested in Cambodia at the request of Sweden, where he faces a one-year prison term for violating copyright laws, authorities said Monday.

Justin Verlander shut down Chicago after the first inning and Delmon Young hit a tiebreaking three-run homer in the sixth Sunday night to lift the Detroit Tigers to a 4-2 victory over the White Sox and a share of first place in the AL Central.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called Monday for Southeast Asian states to present a united front to the Chinese in dealing with territorial disputes in the South China Sea to "literally calm the waters." And she urged all involved to make "meaningful progress" on a process for ending conflicts by November.

A shooter in woods north of the Seattle area fired at SWAT team and other police officers Sunday after law enforcement responded to reports that a man had been shot in the leg in his driveway, authorities said.

Tanner Ritter, 7, contributes to a back-to-school-themed children's mural Sunday during the San Marcos Artwalk at Old Restaurant Row, which included a car show, art show and restaurant deals. The event will be held from 1 to 5 p.m. on the first Sunday of each month. The children's mural was sponsored by The Art Miles Mural Project, which has supported some 4,000 murals painted all over the world during the past 17 years, said Art Miles. BILL WECHTER | bwechter@nctimes.com

A wildfire that broke out in the Angeles National Forest on Sunday forced the evacuation of thousands of visitors and sent a huge cloud of smoke that could be seen from throughout the Los Angeles basin.

On Sunday, we put the whammy on leading trainer Bob Baffert as he came up empty on the afternoon. On Monday, trainer Jack Carava has horses in the first and last race on the 11-race Labor Day card. Bet $25 to win on Unstopper Topper in the first and Hout Bay in the 11th.

The inmate, identified as Anthony Dunton, had been shot Saturday by a sheriff’s deputy at UCSD Medical Center in Hillcrest hours after he had fought with deputies in his jail cell, according to authorities.